Background
Wotquenne was born in Lobbes, Hainault, Belgium.
non-fiction writer Librarian musicologist
Wotquenne was born in Lobbes, Hainault, Belgium.
He studied at Brussels" Conservatoire Royal, where his teachers included Louis Brassin (piano), Alphonse Mailly (organ), and François-Auguste Gevaert (theory).
In 1894 he was appointed the chief librarian of the conservatoire. He retained this post until 1918. During his time the library acquired a great many works, both printed and in manuscript.
He also contributed to a complete inventory of the works of a fellow-Belgian, the Liège-born André Grétry.
Thanks to Wotquenne"s efforts, C.P.E. Bach"s pieces came to be known by their Wq numbers. They are now also known by their H numbers, from a new and more thorough catalogue by Eugene Helm (1989).
A concordance between these systems is available. From 1921 Wotquenne lived in France, working in Antibes as a choir master and organ teacher.
He died at Antibes shortly after the outbreak of World World War World War II